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Jons und Erdme
Adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel about the troubled relationship between the strong willed Erdme and her irascible husband Jons in the Lithunian moors.
Great Expectations
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Top Billed Cast
Gerhard Jessen Joe Gargery the blacksmith
Ellen Rovsing Mrs Gargary
Martin Herzberg Pip as a child
Harry Komdrup Pip
Peter Nielsen Dolge Orlick
Emil Helsengreen Abel Magwitch
Marie Dinesen Miss Havisham
Olga Belajeff Estella, Miss Havisham's foster daughter
Esther Kjær Jensen Estella as a child
Egill Rostrup Mr Jaggers the lawyer
Ellen Lilien Biddy
Alfred Meyer Uncle Pumblechook
Hjalmar Bendtsen Herbert Pocket
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